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Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Kuldauhind A' Design Award in Arhitektuuri, hoonete ja rajatiste disain Competition Category.


KuldArhitektuur· 2023

Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

Kuldauhind A' Design Award Winner in Arhitektuur Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid

Kontseptsiooni väljatöötamine põhineb kahel seotud köitel, mis on paralleelsed saidi ühe küljega, dialoogis vahetu konteksti eripäraga, käsitledes saidi piire ja liikumist. Reageerides maastiku orientatsioonile, vaadetele, tuule suunale ja hooajalistele muutustele, kompleks avaneb või sulgub, kujundades iga kord erineva ilme, kuna üleminek looduslikust keskkonnast ehitatud keskkonnale loob visuaalsete ja kontseptuaalsete suhete süsteemi. ja parameetrid, mis oma olemuselt mõjutavad arhitektuurset ruumi.

The Recognition

About the Kuldauhind A' Design Award

Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid on Kuldauhinna A' Design Award võitja, ülimalt prestiižikas tunnustus, mis antakse esmaklassilistele, imelistele ja silmapaistvatele disainidele. Kuldvõitjad on ülimalt uuenduslikud, visioonilised ja glamuurselt pimestavad looming, mis peegeldab oma disainerite geniaalsust, tarkust ja oskusi. Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid peaks olema kõrgelt kiidetud, suundi seadev ja monumentaalne leiutis, mis pakub enneolematut väärtust. See Kuldauhinna A' Design Award võidudisain on suurejooneline, lugupeetud projekt, mis toob suurt kasu ning nihutab kunsti, teaduse, disaini ja tehnoloogia piire. Cascading Terraces Elamukorterid tekitab intensiivset soovi, äratab kirge, julgustab loovust ja lummab meid.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The development of the concept is based on two linked volumes parallel to one side of the site, in dialogue with the particular nature of the immediate context, addressing the site boundaries and movement. Responding to the orientation, views, wind direction and the seasonal changes of the landscape, the complex opens up or closes, developing each time a different appearance.
Dimensions & Packaging
Approximate Total Building Area: 4580 square meters
Tags
architecture, residential, apartments, Greece, design, terrace, concrete, nature
Production Technology
In terms of materiality, raw concrete and white textured render are prominent in the building skin and fencing, developing a simple yet effective language. This approach, as expressed here spatially, implies materiality, temperature, density, weight and acoustic qualities, elements that are abstract but are derived from thorough experience.
Design Challenge
This emergent microcosm provides an intricate experience based on the dynamics between the man-made and the natural, the point of focus and the background, the familiar and the unknown, triggering sensations and emotions that capture the moment. Throughout this journey, experiences, spaces and materialities converge, either as parallel or as complimentary events.
Research
The arrangement addresses a series of choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones towards the landscape-via the terraces- and towards the site. A series of cascading terraces is developed resembling F.L. Wright Fallingwater. The design also considers the play of light on the textured surfaces, the depth of color, the manipulation of the form and the overall aesthetic qualities.
Inspiration
The design approach prioritizes the utilization of the main view which opens up towards the SW and NW due to the site s location and topography of the suburb of Kifissia. The internal arrangement attempts to address a series of carefully choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones that are extrovert towards the landscape, via the terraces, and introvert towards the site. This results in a series of cascading terraces at a slight angle with each other.
Project Duration
Design: 2021
Location: Athens, Greece
Operation Flow
The overall design approach was not preoccupied by a certain aesthetic correctness, but first and foremost to establish as a key parameter, the potential of a multi-sensory experience between the building and the landscape, and also aiming at the substantiation of individuality in architecture through the expression of the architectural object.
Team Members
Architectural Design: Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio
Image Credits
3D Visualization: Batis Studio

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